Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Chemistry & Materials
2 pending office actions • 2 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ayr Ltd. currently has 2 pending office actions within the Chemistry & Materials technology area. This portfolio demonstrates fragmentation relative to its size, as the 2 pending actions are split across 2 distinct art units. This distribution suggests that the company's technical focus within chemistry is diverse enough to trigger different classification standards at the USPTO, resulting in multiple art units being involved.
The prosecution workload is handled by 2 distinct examiners, with WILL, KATHERINE A identified as the busiest examiner. This examiner is responsible for 1 of the pending office actions. Because each action is in a different art unit and handled by a different examiner, the prosecution strategy for Ayr Ltd. must be individualized for each matter. There is no overlap in examiners or art units to leverage for consistency, requiring the practitioner to adapt to the specific requirements of the different art units simultaneously.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (50%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (50%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILL, KATHERINE A | 1 | 67.2% | +20.3% |
| YAARY, ERIC | 1 | 73.8% | +3.3% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19029666 | E-CIGARETTE PERSONAL VAPORIZER | YAARY, ERIC | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19031738 | ELECTRONIC VAPING SYSTEM | WILL, KATHERINE A | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 1747 | 1 |
| 1755 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19031738 | ELECTRONIC VAPING SYSTEM | WILL, KATHERINE A | 1747 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 18, 2025 |
| 19029666 | E-CIGARETTE PERSONAL VAPORIZER | YAARY, ERIC | 1755 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jan 17, 2025 |
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